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Messages in your workspace holds one conversation per person: clients on your caseload, and people who wrote to you from your profile before booking anything.
The Messages screen with a searchable list of five conversations, each showing a preview and an unread count, and an open thread with a client where her question and the therapist's reply sit above a box reading Message Maya

Conversations on the left, the thread on the right

Enquiries from people who haven’t booked

Anyone can write to you from your public profile — a name and an email address is enough, with no account. A first message from someone new creates a client record with the conversation attached, listed on your caseload under No account. They can’t sign in until they claim it — see Client files. Limits sit on first contact: You are never obliged to reply.

Contact details

Phone numbers, email addresses and links are refused in a conversation until there’s a paid session between the two of you. The message isn’t sent, and the sender is told why. Once a session is paid for, the guard lifts.

Writing

A message is up to 4,000 characters. You can attach a PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, Word, plain text, MP3 or M4A file. Both sides see a typing indicator, and messages arrive live in an open conversation without a refresh.

Replying from your own email

Every notification email about a conversation carries a reply-to address unique to that thread and to you. Reply to it from your mail client and your reply is posted into the conversation. The address stays the same for the life of the thread, so an old notification still works.

The sender has to match

The token in that address is not a credential; it says which conversation and which side. The address the reply comes from must equal the address on file for you, so a colleague replying to a forwarded notification is refused.

When a reply doesn’t land

Quoted text below your reply is stripped. Type above the quote.

Auto-replies

Auto-reply sets an automatic first answer for people who write while you’re away. Say when you’ll answer and what someone should do if they can’t wait. It’s an away message, not triage.
Don’t put a phone number, an email address or a link in an auto-reply — the contact-details rule applies and it will be refused. An auto-reply is not the answer for someone in distress: point people to emergency services on 000 and Lifeline on 13 11 14. See Getting help.

What a notification says

A notification says something happened, not what it said: a review isn’t quoted, a document isn’t attached, a returned check-in isn’t summarised. New messages are the deliberate exception.